Latest Journal of American History

It came in the mail yesterday. Here is the table of contents. The first article is "Impossible Hermaphrodites: Intersex in America, 1620-1960":

Elizabeth Reis explores the changing definitions and perceptions of "hermaphrodites" (now called intersex) from the colonial period to the mid-twentieth century. Over the course of three centuries, most medical observers agreed that true hermaphrodites did not exist in the human species, and that patients with ambiguous reproductive organs were simply cases of "mistaken sex." The stubborn reality of hermaphrodism, however, challenged the ideal polarity of two sexes and raised questions about what it meant to be male or female. Reis describes the changing ways Americans, particularly physicians, have understood and treated nonconforming bodies to uncover the hidden history of intersex and to explain how Americans naturalized the norms of sex and gender. (pp. 411–41)

Yep.